Regent Apps is a suite of collaboration and communication applications powered by Google that incorporates email, calendar, documents and social networking. This new system will allow students and professors to collaborate in real time using the powerful Google system. It will allow you to manage projects by creating and sharing calendars, collaboratively create and edit documents in Google Docs and video chat with professors and classmates using Google+Hangouts. We are proud to offer such a great suite of collaborative tools to the Regent community and hope that it provides an easier way to work together.

To get started with Regent Apps please make sure to read the entirety of this page to make your transition as smooth as possible.

A few things you should know before using your new email account:

1. You will be given a new email address which will be formatted as follows: username@mail.regent.edu. Your old email account (username@regent.edu) will still be active until May 2013 but emails will be forwarded to your new Regent Apps email account (username@mail.regent.edu).

2. You will need to forward any emails that you need from your old email account (username@regent.edu) to your new email account (username@mail.regent.edu) manually after migrating to Regent Apps. No emails will be automatically moved. You can also move emails over by setting up your old username@regent.edu account as a POP account in your new Regent Apps account. You can do this by following the directions here.

3. Clicking on the "Mail" link in the MyRegent Portal will take you to your old mailbox. To access the new mail box and the new features of Regent Apps you will need to login at apps.regent.edu or click the "Regent Apps" link in the MyRegent Portal.

Frequently Asked Questions

There are several ways to set up Regent Apps on a mobile device such as an iPhone, iPad, or Android Device. The easiest way to set up Regent Apps on a mobile device is to set up the account as a Gmail account with the devices native settings. If your device does not have a Gmail setting follow the steps here to set up the account as a POP or IMAP account.

Gmail does not use traditional folders, instead it uses labels. Labels are similar to folders but are more visual, offering the ability color code emails by subject, sender, date, category or any other method that you choose. You can read more about labels and how to use them here.

Once you have migrated to a Regent Apps account, emails that you received prior to the migration will remain in your old email inbox. You can move these emails to your new Regent Apps inbox by one of two methods. The first is to forward emails that you need to your new Regent Apps account. This is best if you only have a few emails that you need to move. The other method is to forward the mail messages using POP. Directions for forwarding emails to Regent Apps can be found here and the POP settings can be found here under question 9. If you need additional help please contact the Helpdesk.

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® is a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook® 2003, 2007, or 2010 that lets you keep using Outlook to manage your Regent Apps for Education account. Specifically, Google Apps Sync syncs your mail, contacts, calendar events, Outlook notes, and tasks between your Google profile in Outlook and your Regent Apps account in the cloud, so you can access the same information at any time from either interface.

Google and Regent University take security seriously and protecting your data is important. Every student will be issued a Google Apps account when they are accepted to Regent University. The first time that you log in to your Regent Apps, you will be required to accept Google's Terms of Use to access your Regent University provided email account. All Google applications are governed by the terms set forth in Google's Privacy Policy. The consumer Google Privacy and Terms of Service Policy is available here

When you sign into your Regent Apps account, you will be presented with information on the privacy and security of your new account. In that statement, it mentions the domain administrator as having access to your account information. In Google Apps for education, that administrator is Regent University and not Google. Regent University does not access Regent Apps student data unless the student has requested help with their Apps account or the university is under subpoena to supply such information.

If you have specific questions about the privacy or security of your account, here are some additional resources provided by Google.